758 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



XXXVI. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



We have received the following letters addressed to the- 

 Editors : — 



Sirs, — Since the publication of ray article in the April 

 number of 'The Ibis ' (above, p. 285), I have received some 

 further notes on Pithecophaga jefferyi from Mr. "Willoughby 

 Lowe, communicated to him by Father Llanos, of Manila. 

 It should, however, be understood that Father Llanos 

 received his information from natives, and that it would 

 be unwise to place too much reliance upon its exact 

 accuracy. 



"(1). The Eagle sent to London alive was captured in 

 September 1908 by means of a snare. 



" (2). The nests of the Eagle are made of small dry 

 branches : they are neither very large nor deep. The sticks 

 are firmly held together by the bird's own excrement. 

 Ordinarily these Eagles lay four eggs, and incubation lasts 

 about twenty-four days. 



" (3). The usual food of these Eagles is fish, which is 

 captured along the sea-shore, but they also eat hogs, monkeys, 

 cats, &c. 



" (4). Their resort is generally near the shore, in the high 

 rocks and crags. 



" (5). After making the nest and during incubation and 

 the rearing of their young they are very fierce ; they attack 

 and kill anything that approaches. 



" (6). The place in Mindanao wdiere this bird was captured 

 is called ' Sandag, Sarigas/ 



" (7). A little time after its capture a snare was laid in 

 the same manner as before, and there came its mate, which 

 must have been the male bird and much larger in size, and, 

 seizing the bait, gave a strong tug, and broke the cord which 

 held the snare, and escaped." 



The last paragraph in these notes would seem to throw 

 some doubt on my statement that the specimen recently 

 possessed by the Zoological Society was a female. 



